Yesterday I wrote an article relating to logging into the F5 BIG-IP LTM VE VMware image console using the default username and password however some people may prefer to perform their configurations using the BIG-IP LTM VE GUI which has a different default user and password. First you will need to locate the IP address…
Recently I have started working a lot more with various F5 hardware including BIG-IP LTM’s or BIG-IP Local Traffic Managers. F5 provides a VMware image so you can have a test environment running as a virtual machine. This is a great place to complete testing, example configurations, etc. Once you start the F5 BIG-IP LTM…
Earlier today while responding to a comment in an older article I requested that the person leaving the comment provide information to show what repositories were enabled in YUM. I figured printing out the configured YUM repositories could be useful to others so below is an example command and example output to display what YUM…
I have been using the Amazon Machine Tags WordPress plugin on numerous sites for a long time and have been happy with the results up until the last couple of months. I believe that Amazon has made some changes to their API over the last year or so and it has caused a lot of…
It can be useful on a Linux server to sort all of the files in a directory by date. Sometimes you may want to backup files older than a certain date or you may just want to see what is in a directory and what date those files were created. Use the information below to…
A friend asked me to look at their computer today because they were receiving some warning messages regarding anti-virus software. Upon inspection I noticed that he had Microsoft Security Essentials, which is what I recommended, installed as well as the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. This was a Windows XP machine so I initially went to the…
I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 awhile back on the site where the below issue was noticed and in fact am running WordPress 3.1 on the site now. Today when attempting to block a new page from showing in the navigation bar via the Mandigo theme Theme Options screen I received an error complaining about permissions.…
Typically I will use the WordPress Lightbox 2 plugin to provide a format for images within posts on a WordPress site. Basically this plugin provides an ajax window that images open in and you can scroll between the images with mini arrows to the left and the right side or you can close the image…
If you performed a default install of ModSecurity but never modified the configuration or completed any other steps the chances are that you are not logging any ModSecurity items. Typically you just need to add a directory structure with the proper permissions and then ModSecurity will do the rest as far as generating the files…